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Attendant Clement and Nurse Leah Lewis inject a patient with insulin to induce coma as part of a treatment for insanity at the Camarillo State Hospital, 1940

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Title: Attendant Clement and Nurse Leah Lewis inject a patient with insulin to induce coma as part of a treatment for insanity at the Camarillo State Hospital, 1940
Date Created and/or Issued: February 20, 1940
1940-02-20
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Insulin shock therapy; insulin coma therapy
This photograph appears with the article "Insulin rocks the foundations of reason and yet seems to restore sanity in many cases. Science today is engaged in no more exciting adventure." Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 1940: I6.
Text from newspaper caption: The insulin is injected. In a short while a sort of mental earthquake will shake the patient's brain. Attendant Clement handles hypo and Nurse Lewis the flask.
Text from negative sleeve: Insulin treatment for insanity; Camarillo State Hospital; Sunday Magazine; Feb 20, 1940
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: C1429_b3155_neg21417_frame6
ark:/21198/zz002hjd5v
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Mental institutions--California--Camarillo
Mentally ill persons--California--Camarillo
Shock therapy--California--Camarillo
Lewis, Leah
Camarillo State Hospital
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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